Now that Lionsgate is almost done castingHunger Games: Catching Fire, the studio is making plans for the third film in the franchise. Their first order of business: find a new director.

You see, production for Mockingjay Part 1 and Part 2 is moving waaay too fast for Catching Fire's director Francis Lawrence to make the sequel and have time to prep the next movies. So, the book's author Suzanne Collins and the rest of the studio heads are currently vetting the right directors for the next two films.

Of course, the films could benefit from having the same director… buuuut it appears that getting all four Hunger Games movies in the can is the studio's #1 priority.

Is that the best plan….? Probably not!

But like the people of the Capital, as long as we don't have go a year without a newHunger Games, we won't complain!

5 comments to “The Hunger Games Seeks A New Director”

Well if they've already announced the following film release dates they can't really go "oh our director works slowly and so we're releasing them all 2 years apart". I understand where they're coming from, peoples attention spans these days are so short. Plus I'm sure you'd write a post about how the subsequent films are taking so long to be released.

I don't even know why they're making four movies. It's not like they need it. Probably just to get more attention. I get that Breaking Dawn and Deathly Hallows had to get cut into two, but that was because the books are long and no detail could be wasted. But Hunger Game's books aren't that long at all.

Shane Redway -- a Canadian rapper and close friend of Drake's -- was killed early Saturday morning in a car crash. He was just 26 years old.

Redway and two others were killed when their car lost control, struck a guardrail and burst into flames. The crash occurred around 4am outside Pearson International Airport in Toronto. It's unclear who was behind the wheel. Police are investigating the crash.

Drake took to Instagram to remember Redway, posting two different tributes.